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I am regular at anandtech. this has to be the first time they did this. They should've done more before. Hope they will run this again..and more often. at least until I can get my hands on i7 for free. Reply

I would look forward to upgrading this to Win7 to work better with the SSD. And hope the drivers for Win7 are ready. It would be so much fun! Thanks to you and your partners for offering such a great system. Reply

I am a schoolteacher and so have semi-voluntarily taken a vow of poverty. If I win this machine I will use it for my writing and my recording and will finally have enough HD and processing power to make videos. I will happily tell one and all how I came by the equipment to make these works of art possible. Reply

I have been using family members old laptops for a long time. My current laptop is quite good (a mac pro), but I could still use a desktop system. Laptops just are not that good for playing games, although mine will play warcraft; it will almost burn your leg if you don't put something under it though. The last desktop I built for myself was a 300 MHz K6. I have helped many of my friends build systems though. The last one I picked components for was a C2D 2.6 GHz with a GF 8800 GT, a little after the video card was released, so it was expensive at the time.

Anyway, I have been an Anandtech (and Aceshardware) reader for a long time. but I have not posted on Anandtech forums before.

My husband could really use this. His home-built computer can no longer handle today's software after seven years of upgrades. This would make for a nice christmas gift when he gets back from his deployment:) Reply

Great computer for a give-away to a friend or someone in the family. Already listened to Anand and bought my Intel Core i7 920 and Intel 80 GB MLC SSD.

(Who else reading Anand's website doesn't have a Core i5 or Core i7 already and a Intel 80 GB SSD? If you don't have enough money then you need to save up a little, help someone out for a little pay, to make it happen, or stop being cheap and listen to the man's great SSD information and Intel Core i5/7 reviews and jump on this technology already, at least the SSD!)Reply

I really think you have put together a terrific hydrid system. What a surprise this would be for my husband for Christmas. It would be such an unexpected surprise and something he (we) truly need, seriously it would be life changing for us. Thank you for the chance to enter. I am following you on twitter, I'm joannaonthelake and I have sent out a tweet:

I remember those old days when the giveaways were whatever was extra in the testing lab...usually on an anniversary date or milestone. They were always simple but the newest tech. Glad to see it back, bigger and better. Good luck to everyone. Reply

Thank you for the chance to win such a choice collection of hardware! And thanks for being one of my Best sources for hardware info for over ten years and for your monthly editorial in CPU magazine. Reply

I can dig these new I7's even if they don't have triple channel memory, triple channel is not what makes the original I7's so burly, its the multi-threading (hyper). A 4890 is simply powerful enough to play anything these days within reason, and a SSD to boot (no pun intended), is pretty darn awesome too.

Of course there are probably thousands of people that could really use a decent system...

Lets see, looks like there have been 3729 posts so far and this has been going for about out of 8 days so far, which is about 621.5 per day, for a total of 4972. Let's just round that off to 5000 entries via the comments. I'm going to take a wild stab at this and say that 80% of all entries will be via comments and only 20% via twitter. (cant even look to see from the office), so that would bring the total up to 6250 entries. But I am going to venture to say that 5% will be disqualified (for not doing both things) bringing it down to about 5937.5. So that would leave my odds at 1 in less than 6000. Not too good. But not too bad... What are some other things with similar odds?

Hello i really think this is nice of yall to do for all of us out-dated people. Im still t'workin with an P4 Without HT and a whopping 2x 512 Ram and a screaming 9800 Pro. Please upgrade my life (so i can actually post in your forums on something relavent to the PC world). So here is my +1 to enter the vote.

As an IT pro, I'm used to turning to Anandtech for free information and reviews when looking at computing hardware and software. Free hardware however is unheard of. Great way to build your visitor/blog base while instilling instant loyalty in one lucky winner! :) Reply

My system is so dated (an old P4c 2.6ghz OCed to 3.2ghz) that I can't even begin to imagine what a system like this can do. All I can say is that if I won something like this, I would game until my eyes bled. My current system handles pong with relative ease; how does this machine stack up? Reply

Good system setup, especially the core components. Were it mine I'd probably up the RAM to 8GB, but other than that it looks pretty much like something I'd cobble together. I don't currently have a desktop, so winning one would be quite nice! Here's hoping. Good luck with the promotion...

Also, anandtech has some of the best in-depth articles I've found on the web. Thanks! Reply

I know a few friends who have invested in an ibuypower made computers and they topnotch. Thanks for hosting this give away Anandtech, I've been following the site for years now and it has always delivered when it comes to detailed hardware reviews.

Best of luck to everyone who enters, I know we all could put it to good use. Reply

I've always loved this site, Anand. The technical information here has helped me build about 20 systems over the years, help many friends with thorny problems, and enhanced my understanding of right wingers. ;)

I find it a bit odd that it only comes with 4GB of RAM seeing as how most tripple channel memory configs for the I7 are 6GB. Nonetheless, free is free. Who am I to bite the hand that feeds me...information. Reply

This will be a very, very good system. The SSD alone with be mind-blowing. The DDR1600 RAM will run in-spec with the default BCLK of 1333 and the RAM multiplier at 12. But with a liquid cooler you could go with a BCLK of 167, use DDR2000 RAM, set the CPU multiplier at 17 and not worry about overheating during Turbo Boost. Very nice indeed. Reply

my name is azmi.30 yrs old.
i work in electronic manufacturing company. but the company is going bust.not really.they go to other place with cheaper labour.not that my labour cost is any less cheap.
so in a year's time i will be jobless.i hope not.the economy is bad over here.
i need the money to so i can use photoshop to edit photos.create artwork.and sell to people.
i intent to make a living out of it.
i love computer.the technology.
i have to win Reply

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Loooong time lurker (2002 or so), but just created an account. Advice on here was invaluable for building my first ever computer. With this system, I wouldn't need to build another one for a loooong time! Reply

Yea, that is a nice addition to the anandtech site!
And a nice system I have to say,...
I would have chosen a cheaper VGA card (like a 57xx series model) and 8Gb RAM instead. Oh yes and Win7 of course...
Anyway, sweet little system for sure.
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This site has always been a fantastic resource for tech news and product reviews. It's great that you are willing to do stuff like this giveaway to show that you are involved with your readership. Reply

This system would be such a great win!!! I cannot even began to say just how this would benefit my family.
The latest processor architecture is just amazing, the size as well as performance. I would feel blessed to have my name be chosen. Reply

Hello Anand,
One option for an international give-away:
Use a partner that is present worldwide, like ... Intel ...
Intel could pass a processor, or a SSD, that they can deliver, from their local distribution logistcs(SP?), worldwide!
How about that? Reply

For a long time I've been reading Anandtech and browsing through the forums, but without feedback or an account. I suspect that there are many others like me, and they'll finally make an account to get a shot at this giveaway.

Anandtech tech site is one of the best most informative sites, easy use loads of info been visiting this site for years & recommend to lots of family & friends thank you for so many years of great articles & fun reading keep up the good work Bryon Reply

Although the giveaway is random, I'll just briefly mention that my house was broken into and my computer (and just about all of my other electronics) was stolen. I've been using a laptop for these past couple of months, and a new system would be oh-so-awesome. Cheers, guys! Reply

Bwahaha! All your adresses and emails have successfully been forwarded to the spam companies that will provide you with the info you need to win each part inside that computer,and some bonus spam products for free too! XD Reply